Facial skin during a cold – how to deal with severe dryness and flaking?

This problem affects everyone in winter: runny nose and cold. The feeling of being blocked and the discharge that you try to blow every 5 minutes cause your nose to go through agony. Red, irritated, with dry, flaky skin and pain inside. In addition, dry and chapped lips, sometimes even cheeks. Help, how to deal with it? About this in today's post.

The skin on your face becomes exceptionally delicate and susceptible to irritation in winter. Changing temperatures, wind, frost, staying in heated rooms cause dryness and tension. It is also a time of infections, colds and runny noses. For the skin, these are additional challenges: increased moisture loss, medications taken and constant contact with tissues cause severe dryness of the most sensitive parts of the face.

Runny Nose: A Winter Challenge for the Skin Around the Nose

As the popular saying goes: an untreated cold lasts a week, and a treated one lasts seven days. During this time, your delicate skin around your nose and mouth is subjected to regular friction. Although tissues are soft, if you touch your skin with them a thousand times, it is bound to end badly.
Effects? Red, swollen nostrils, peeling on every side, dryness to the nth degree, and often pain.

"Cold" sores and dry mouth

The delicate skin of the lips and around them also has a hard time in winter. Lips lack a stratum corneum and no sebaceous glands. Cold has a very negative effect on them, as does rubbing them with a tissue during a cold. You probably know from experience what your lips look like during an upper respiratory tract infection: red and flaky skin above the lips that cannot be masked with makeup. Sometimes also unsightly cheilitis caused by a lack of biotin and B vitamins. And that dryness that no ointment, cream or protective lipstick can soothe. What to do?

CBD: A Rescue for Severe Dryness

In the case of severe dryness, caused by, among other things, infection, a runny nose that has been bothering for several days, you need to use an ingredient with a strong regenerating effect. Such an ingredient is CBD, or cannabidiol extracted from hemp. CBD accelerates healing and stimulates skin regeneration, which is crucial in this case. The most beneficial properties are found in the extract CBD full spectrum, because it contains all the phytoactive ingredients naturally occurring in hemp that have a positive effect on skin health: including terpenes, flavonoids and chlorophyll.

You can read more about full spectrum CBD extract in our blog post: Full spectrum CBD extract – what’s behind it?

Propolis to the rescue of severe dryness

If you need strong support for your dryness, it is worth looking for propolis in preparations. Because it is an incredibly beneficial natural ingredient, containing as many as 500 active substances, including polyphenols, amino acids, vitamins A, C and E, and vitamins from group B, as well as numerous minerals[1]

These ingredients are responsible for the strong rebuilding and regenerating effect, which is crucial in the case of severe dryness.

For a difficult problem – a cosmetic for special tasks

Our customers who use this product say directly: it is the only ointment that has managed to cope with a red, flaky and dry nose and skin around the lips from a runny nose. What are we talking about? Balm CBD 750 Relief and Regeneration for Dry Skin

It is a preparation that combines high content full spectrum CBD extract (750 mg) and propolis, herbs of the immortelle, three-leafed thorn and Japanese knotweed. It works like a dressing, and our users confirm this: applied locally where the skin is red, rough, cracked, flaky, sore - it works immediately. It regenerates very strongly, but also thoroughly lubricates and accelerates the reconstruction of the epidermis - because the herbs: immortelle and Japanese knotweed come into play. You can even gently spread Balm on the skin inside the nose, and you will also feel relief and reduced dryness. You can also spread it on the space above and around the mouth tired of a runny nose - you will feel immediate relief and hydration. Our CBD Protective Lipstick – you will find even more moisturizing ingredients here: shea butter, cocoa butter, lanolin and wax.

Essential oils to relieve cold symptoms

Balm has a universal application in case of infections and catarrh. The essential oils contained in it clear a blocked nose, fight the headache, so common during colds and improve the general discomfort resulting from colds. Such action is achieved, among others, by the Balm ointment contained in Lavender oil. You will also find here myrrh, and in aromatherapy, the essential oil from this natural resin is used to relieve colds and coughs.

A small dose of the preparation applied under the nose will not only act on the skin, but also alleviate other symptoms of the infection.

[1] https://www.czytelniamedyczna.pl/7008,aktywnosc-biologiczna-ekstraktow-z-propolisu.html